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Apple's line of PowerBook laptops was intended for the professional and power users. The PowerBook line includes the PowerBook 100, Duo, 500, and 5300 Series; the PowerBook 1400, 2400, 3400; the PowerBook G3, G4 Titanium, and G4 Aluminum.

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Compatibility of 12" and 15" batteries/charging

I need a way to charge my G4 12" PowerBook batteries, at least for data recovery and diagnostics. The 6-contact connectors look the same for the 15" and the 12". If I connect a 12" battery contact-by-contact to the 15" battery socket, is it most likely to charge successfully, do nothing, or explode?!

I have no further information on this question, alas! But since I have borrowed a 12" G4 and have successfully recovered the essential data, my question is now only of "academic" interest.

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Why don't you run the comuter just with the power adapter and without the battery?

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Remacberlin, The power from the working power adapter neither charges batteries nor powers the laptop.

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You should consider buying the TruePower universal battery charger made by Fastmac. I have one to charge my spare batteries and it's working very well. Here's the web link:

http://store.fastmac.com/product_info.ph...

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I don't believe this will work, but to be sure please list the part numbers from both batteries as well as exactly which two machines you have.

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Thanks, Mayer. The target machine is EMC 2030 with battery 825-6431-A. I had wanted to charge it with my A1001. The battery in the latter is a replacement one with part number CB10778A.

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The 12" machine is a :

Apple PowerBook G4 1.5 12" (Al) Specs

Identifiers: 12-Inch - 1.5 GHz - M9690LL/A* - PowerBook6,8 - A1104 - 2030

I don't know what the 15" machine is. The replacement part number netted nothing on a web search.

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